09-01-2012, 08:59 AM
i'm okay with ego as long as i don't have to hear how great one is, or how i did it for this and that reason when it's patently a load bollocks. i'm not keen on poetry that gets posted in a workshop only to read later on that the poet doesn't actually give a fuck what someone thinks because it's perfect and if you don't understand it fuck you 
what i noticed when i first started writing this shit; was that people often told me i was wrong. no i can look back and see that while it may have been, just telling me it's wrong isn't enough. tell me why and that's a problem with a lot of poetry. it comes from people who tell you your poetry is wrong and think by doing so it makes their poetry right.
for me that's bad poetry and often shitty poetry to boot.
i dislike that poetry misleads us into thinking we know how to write it. it deceives us because we think we're writing poetry and poetry smiles at us and tells us we're so fucking good, and then some bastard comes along who really knows how to write poetry and tells us poetry is a lying fucker that so far has be taking us for a ride. it bedazzles us and blinded by it we see all sorts of ineffable qualities.
what i noticed when i first started writing this shit; was that people often told me i was wrong. no i can look back and see that while it may have been, just telling me it's wrong isn't enough. tell me why and that's a problem with a lot of poetry. it comes from people who tell you your poetry is wrong and think by doing so it makes their poetry right.
for me that's bad poetry and often shitty poetry to boot.
i dislike that poetry misleads us into thinking we know how to write it. it deceives us because we think we're writing poetry and poetry smiles at us and tells us we're so fucking good, and then some bastard comes along who really knows how to write poetry and tells us poetry is a lying fucker that so far has be taking us for a ride. it bedazzles us and blinded by it we see all sorts of ineffable qualities.